THE ORBITAL Tracking the emergent movement for planetary systems governance

Tag

#technology

20 items

News (1)

CIGI Maps the Fault Lines of Digital Governance in 2026

The Centre for International Governance Innovation's annual digital governance outlook identifies a widening gap between the pace of AI and emerging technology and the institutions meant to govern them — while noting that the private sector is filling the vacuum.

Actors (19)

Curve Labs

Web3 development lab building institutional ReFi technology. Core technical partner for Kolektivo Framework and tokenised ecological assets.

Gaia AI

AI-powered forest management platform providing satellite-derived insights on forest health, carbon stocks, and biodiversity metrics to support data-driven conservation decisions.

Hypha DAO

Human-centric decentralised organisation tools for regenerative projects.

Kindship

AI platform building autonomous agents for mission-driven individuals and teams. Agents hold direction over time, act independently, remember context, and produce real-world outputs — designed for changemakers, sensemakers, and collaborative projects.

Kolektivo

Local network states using nature-based currencies for UBI.

Liquid Democracy e.V.

Berlin-based nonprofit developing open-source digital participation tools including Adhocracy, enabling liquid democracy and deliberative processes for governments and civil society.

Metagov

Research collective studying and building interoperable governance tools for online communities, exploring governance games and tool experimentation across digital and physical spaces.

Open Data Cube

Open-source geospatial data management and analysis platform enabling governments and researchers to process and analyse satellite earth observation data at national scale.

Participatory Budgeting Project

Leading US organisation advancing participatory budgeting as a democratic practice, having supported over 400 PB processes and helped allocate hundreds of millions in public funds through direct citizen decision-making.

RadicalxChange

Glen Weyl. Quadratic voting, plural management, new democracy tools.

Single.Earth

Estonian startup creating nature-backed digital tokens (MERIT) that represent verified ecosystem services, building an economic system where preserving nature is more profitable than destroying it.

Steward Ownership

Knowledge platform and network promoting steward-ownership as an alternative corporate model where companies are self-owned, profits serve purpose, and control stays with active stewards rather than passive investors.

Strawbees

Erik Thorstensson. Accessible construction/prototyping tools. Potential core team.

Toucan Protocol

Web3 infrastructure bringing carbon credits on-chain, enabling transparent and programmable carbon markets through tokenisation of verified environmental assets.

Viable Cities

Swedish strategic innovation programme for climate-neutral cities by 2030. Collaborates with Dark Matter Labs on System Demonstrators in Lund and Stockholm.

← Back to feed